#fear

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on. ↗

— Michael Ende

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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble. ↗

— Epicurus

#couch #fear #free #full #golden

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#exploiting #extremists #fear #form #like

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#center #cycle #fear #inefficient #thoughts

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. ↗

— Erik H. Erikson

#children #elders #enough #fear #healthy

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. ↗

— Mark Twain

#absence #fear #mastery #resistance

He that hopes no good fears no ill. ↗